Gray vs Hardy

Gray

name
  • A minor city in Audubon County, Iowa. 

  • A town and census-designated place therein, in Cumberland County, Maine. 

  • A surname transferred from the nickname; originally a nickname for someone with a gray beard or hair. 

  • A male given name. 

  • A census-designated place in Washington County, Tennessee. 

  • A rural locality in north-east Tasmania, Australia. 

  • An unincorporated community in Knox County, Kentucky. 

  • A city, the county seat of Jones County, Georgia. 

  • A census-designated place in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. 

Hardy

name
  • A minor city in Humboldt County, Iowa. 

  • A township in Holmes County, Ohio. 

  • A village in Nuckolls County, Nebraska. 

  • A former town in Manchester, England, now absorbed into Chorlton-cum-Hardy. 

  • Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English novelist and poet. 

  • An unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California. 

  • A minor city in Sharp County and Fulton County, Arkansas. 

  • A male given name transferred from the surname. 

  • A locality east of Peterborough, South Australia. 

  • An unincorporated community in Franklin County, Virginia. 

  • A township in Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada. 

  • A census-designated place in Cascade County, Montana. 

  • An unincorporated community in Grenada County, Mississippi. 

  • An unincorporated community and coal town in Pike County, Kentucky. 

  • A common surname transferred from the nickname, originally a nickname for a hardy person. 

  • A hamlet in Rural Municipality of The Gap No. 39, Saskatchewan, Canada. 

How often have the words Gray and Hardy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )